Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and desertification problems. Supported by a rapidly developing Chinese economy and the dissemination of effective...
Evidence-based Conservation
Lessons from the Lower Mekong
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There is a considerable gap between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. Science is often failing to inform the practice of conservation, which remains largely experience-based. The main reason is the poor accessibility...
Striving for Environmental Sustainability in a Complex World
Canadian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A valuable resource for scholars across a number of sustainability fields, this book will also appeal to sustainability practitioners, including government researchers, policy makers, and parks managers, with its focus on sustainability, conservation, environmental management, and resource planning.
The Conservation Revolution
Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
An anti-capitalist manifesto for conservation
Conservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the...
Butterfly Conservation in North America
Efforts to help save our charismatic microfauna
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
The book addresses this critical need by providing a straightforward and easy to read primer to key elements of at-risk butterfly conservation programs including captive husbandry, organism reintroduction, habitat restoration, population monitoring, recovery planning and cooperative programs.
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by Don Philpott
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Although the earth has been around for millions of years, humans have only been seriously interested in protecting and preserving the environment for less than 200 years and the terms conservationism and environmentalism are little more than 100 years old. The industrial revolution brought with it...
The Ecological Other
Environmental Exclusion in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other, Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
A single-resource volume of information on the most current and effective techniques of wildlife modeling, Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes is appropriate for students and researchers alike. The unique blend of conceptual, methodological, and application chapters discusses...
by Susan Kay Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Whether you are managing wetlands, protecting endangered species, or restoring ecosystems, you need to be able to communicate effectively in order to solve conservation and resource managemproblems. Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals can help you do just that—it is a practical and...
Conservation and Development in India
Reimagining Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Despite decades of efforts to integrate conservation and development, India is torn between two very different worldviews of peoples’ place in the country’s natural environment. This book takes a critical look at nature conservation and poverty alleviation in India. It opens up discussion of the...
Future Nature
A Vision for Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
The countryside is changing faster than ever. Fifty years of conservation achievements in the UK are now being confronted by a new complexion of economic forces that are driving change in the countryside. At the same time new ideas in conservation are altering the role that conservation is being asked...
As Long as Grass Grows
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism
Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist...
by Story Clark
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Finally, a comprehensive book on land conservation financing for community and regional conservation leaders. A Field Guide to Conservation Finance provides essential advice on how to tackle the universal obstacle to protecting private land in America: lack of money. Story Clark dispels the myths...
Transfrontier Conservation Areas
People Living on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities. Cross-border...